FTL needs to resist system shutdown requests

[TJJ]

I just had the most rage inducing sequence of events happen to me

It was a long game of FTL; after surviving many hard fought battles & adverse luck events I reached Sector 8 in a pretty good state. Victory was likely.

1st thing I do in every fight is tap space to pause.

Upon engaging the boss I attempted this as usual, but a split-second before I pressed space - Avast! popped up a focus stealing notification dialogue "To complete the recent update you machine needs to be restarted. (Reboot/Postpone)"
This was an update I'd postponed from several hours before, and yes, you've guessed it..... on this dialogue "reboot" is the default input action, thus my pressing of space immediately closed the dialogue and initiated a system shutdown.
Half a second later FTL had closed itself; all progress of my marathon game lost.

Now there's no denying this is a really bad design by Avast!
However, I feel FTL should resist system shutdown requests when it isn't in a position to perform an automatic save & exit.
When progress/work will be lost it is convention for applications to prevent system shutdown requests without first prompting the user - even simple applications like Notepad do this.

[UltraMantis]

You can switch that off in Avast, or use somethign better or less intrusive than Avast. Though i couldn't recommend anything as they all seem too annoying to me. Such AV suites are as bad as malware imo. The worst offender once blocked acces to a video card because it came from an unrecognised app. The app was Dawn of War... Thank you dear anti virus for protecting me so much that you block a game's acces to a video card The damn AV didnt even have the decency to completely uninstall itself and left junk folders and dead registry entries, AND my DoW settings were also mysteriously removed. seriously...

Personally i use Win7 Firewall Control (freeware) to autoblock outgoing requests by malware apps that sneak through, and a virus scanner to check downloaded/received files. House Call or Bitdefender are non-intrusive and have low requirements. Glary Utilities can clean up a lot of useless junk from your disk and registry.

I'd definetly recommend firewall control and Glary. As for AV, there is no perfect solution so use whatever works best.